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Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2018

Chen, Z., Z. Chen, C.-Y. Kuo, Y. Tang, L.R. Dedon, Q. Li, L. Zhang, C. Klewe, Y.-L. Huang, B. Prasad, A. Farhan, M. Yang, J.D. Clarkson, S. Das, S. Manipatruni, A. Tanaka, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, A. Scholl, Y.-H. Chu, Z.Q. Qiu, Z. Hu, L.-H. Tjeng, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, L.-W. Wang, and L.W. Martin."Complex strain evolution of polar and magnetic order in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films."Nature Communications 9 (2018). DOI

Liu, Z.Q., J.H. Liu, M.D. Biegalski, J.-M. Hu, S.L. Shang, Y. Ji, J.M. Wang, S.L. Hsu, A.T. Wong, M.J. Cordill, B. Gludovatz, C. Marker, H. Yan, Z.X. Feng, L. You, M.W. Lin, T.Z. Ward, Z.K. Liu, C.B. Jiang, L.Q. Chen, R.O. Ritchie, H.M. Christen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Electrically reversible cracks in an intermetallic film controlled by an electric field."Nature Communications 9 (2018). DOI

2017

Li, Q., C.T. Nelson, S.-L. Hsu, A.R. Damodaran, L.-L. Li, A.K. Yadav, M. McCarter, L.W. Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.V. Kalinin."Quantification of flexoelectricity in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice polar vortices using machine learning and phase-field modeling."Nature Communications 8 (2017). DOI

2016

Liu, Z.Q., L. Li, Z. Gai, J.D. Clarkson, S.L. Hsu, A.T. Wong, L.S. Fan, M.-W. Lin, C.M. Rouleau, T.Z. Ward, H.N. Lee, A.S. Sefat, H.M. Christen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Full Electroresistance Modulation in a Mixed-Phase Metallic Alloy."Physical Review Letters 116 (2016). DOI

2015

Lee, Y., Z.Q. Liu, J.T. Heron, J.D. Clarkson, J. Hong, C. Ko, M.D. Biegalski, U. Aschauer, S.L. Hsu, M.E. Nowakowski, J. Wu, H.M. Christen, S. Salahuddin, J.B. Bokor, N.A. Spaldin, D.G. Schlom, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Large resistivity modulation in mixed-phase metallic systems."Nature Communications 6 (2015). DOI

2004

Shinde, S.R., S.B. Ogale, J. Higgins, R.J. Choudhary, V.N. Kulkarni, T. Venkatesan, H. Zheng, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, A.V. Pogrebnyakov, S.Y. Xu, Q. Li, X.X. Xi, J.M. Redwing, and D. Kanjilal."Modification of critical current density of MgB 2 films irradiated with 200 MeV Ag ions."Applied Physics Letters 84 (2004) 2352-2354. DOI

1996

Kwon, C., Q. Li, K.-C. Kim, M.C. Robson, Z. Trajanovic, J.L. Peng, R.L. Greene, A.M. Repaci, C. Lobb, R. Decca, H.D. Drew, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T. Venkatesan, K.-M. Ham, and R. Sooryakumar."Pulsed laser deposited superlattices based on perovskite oxides."Superlattices and Microstructures 19 (1996) 169-181.

1992

Walkenhorst, A., C. Doughty, X.X. Xi, S.N. Mao, Q. Li, T. Venkatesan, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Dielectric properties of SrTiO3 thin films used in high T c superconducting field-effect devices."Applied Physics Letters 60 (1992) 1744-1746. DOI

1991

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, A. Inam, D.M. Hwang, T.S. Ravi, T. Sands, X.X. Xi, X.D. Wu, Q. Li, T. Venkatesan, and R. Kilaas."The atomic structure of growth interfaces in Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films."Journal of Materials Research 6 (1991) 2264-2271. DOI

1990

Inam, A., Q. Li, X.X. Xi, X.D. Wu, B. Dutta, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, J.A. Martinez, B. Wilkens, J. Barner, L. Nazar, D.M. Hwang, C.C. Chang, S.A. Schwarz, H. Dorsett, L. DiDomenico, C. Weiss, A. Findikoglu, D. Hemmick, J.M. Tarascon, C.T. Rogers, and T. Venkatesan."High tc superconducting electronics research at bellcore/rutgers."Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 1187 (1990) 148-160. DOI

Li, Q., X.X. Xi, X.D. Wu, A. Inam, S. Vadlamannati, W.L. McLean, T. Venkatesan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.M. Hwang, J.A. Martinez, and L. Nazar."Interlayer coupling effect in high-Tc superconductors probed by YBa2Cu3O7-x/PrBa2Cu3O7-x superlattices."Physical Review Letters 64 (1990) 3086-3089. DOI

Wu, X.D., R.E. Muenchausen, S. Foltyn, R.C. Estler, R.C. Dye, A.R. Garcia, N.S. Nogar, P. England, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, D.M. Hwang, T.S. Ravi, C.C. Chang, T. Venkatesan, X.X. Xi, Q. Li, and A. Inam."Large critical current densities in YBa2Cu3O 7-x thin films made at high deposition rates."Applied Physics Letters 57 (1990) 523-525. DOI

Vadlamannati, S., P. England, N.G. Stoffel, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, T.S. Ravi, D.M. Hwang, A. Findikoglu, Q. Li, T. Venkatesan, and W.L. McLean."Recovery of original superconducting properties in ion-irradiated Y 1Ba2Cu3O7-x thin films."Applied Physics Letters 57 (1990) 2265-2267. DOI

Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, C.C. Chang, T.S. Ravi, D.M. Hwang, A. Inam, X.X. Xi, Q. Li, X.D. Wu, and T. Venkatesan."Structural perfection of Y-Ba-Cu-O thin films controlled by the growth mechanism."Applied Physics Letters 57 (1990) 1064-1066. DOI